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Extracting Poisson's Ratio

Thread starter wwpegzda
Start date Jan 15, 2008

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Jan 15, 2008

wwpegzda

Chemical

I am interested in extracting the overall Poisson's ratio of an object. The object is made of different materials with different properties. What I've been doing is a uniaxial tension test and using field output for the U variable to determine the change in length for each dimension, but so far this technique has not worked. Any suggestions on a better way?